Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 124
So ought we to do, if we wish to succeed at last.'
Who acts: we · What happens: do, wish, succeed · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 succeed | mark |
| 11 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 succeed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | ought | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | succeed not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | last | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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